Gorbachev’s reforms heralded freedoms and an end to the cold war. Three writers raised during the 1980s and ’90s lament the ...

Zelensky will inevitably face serious questions as his close political and business allies fall under suspicion According to ...

In his new book, writer Mikhail Zygar retraces the last thirty years of the Soviet Union through a gallery of characters, helping us to understand Moscow's present based on the idea that no dictat ...

The Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.

President Putin now faces his own economic crisis, that could be severe as the one Russians lived through in the 1990s.

Communism, like Lenin, is dead. But Russian national chauvinism has come to an unprecedented life under Putin. Perhaps that ...

After the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, Russia’s transition to a market economy plunged millions into poverty. The ...

Three researchers at the French Institute of International Relations, Dimitri Minic, Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean and Paul Maurice, ...

Again and again, the Russian president’s campaign of nuclear intimidation against Europe and NATO rings hollow.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union 35 years ago, the region - close to the Urals - proclaimed its autonomy, later ...

There’s no set definition of what a niche internet microcelebrity is, but I was one for about a year and a half. It was ...

An explosion at the factory Avangard in the city of Sterlitamak in the Republic of Bashkiria, Russia, on October 17 took the lives of three workers. At least six more were wounded. Five of the wounded ...